She opens her experiment table, which is outfitted with all the supplies she needs to listen to the world around her. She begins as all scientists should: with safety equipment. Once she has donned her lab coat, goggles, and gloves, she begins her morning “ear warm up.” She picks up a clipboard but when she flips the page, she realizes that it makes a sound. She begins to experiment with the paper to see what other types of noises it can make. Soon, the paper has no sound left to demonstrate and she places the paper into a large silver cauldron on the table.

Being a scientist is hard work. She stops to take a sip of her water through her favorite twirly straw…but wait! This makes a noise, too! She experiments with different ways to make noise with the water, including blowing bubbles, and swirling and shaking the water bottle. When she is satisfied with her experiment, she pours the water into a goblet and places the bottle into the cauldron. Oops! The goblet is too full so she takes a sip from the rim of the glass. She wets her finger and makes the goblet sing. She takes another drink and repeats the same action. The goblet sings at a different pitch than before. Soon all the water is gone and the goblet no longer makes noise.

She searches for another object on which to conduct sound experiments and finds a balloon. Perfect! She blows up the balloon and lets the air screech out. Slowly and then faster, making different rhythms. She lets go of the balloon to make notes when the balloon takes off across the lab, emitting the rest of the air. The scientist retrieves the balloon and places it in the cauldron.

She finds a mousetrap. It doesn’t have much sound to it until she engages the trap. However, she learns the hard way that mouse traps can hurt! She sucks on her finger and wipes it with a bandage. When finished, she throws the bandage into the cauldron. It begins to bubble and shake. She hastily puts the lid on the pot and begins proper safety procedures. She grabs a fire extinguisher and helmet but the helmet keeps blocking her view. She accidentally shoots herself with the fire extinguisher. Suddenly, the cauldron becomes quiet. She puts down the fire extinguisher and carefully peeks into the cauldron. There seems to be no danger, but she dons some large gloves and pulls out the letter W. She is fascinated but the letter does not make any noise. She sets the W on an overhead projector and begins to inspect it. When the scientist is not looking, the letter shakes. She removes the letter from the projector and begins to examine it more thoroughly. Nothing looks, smells, feels, or smells odd but then she decides to pop the letter into her mouth and taste it. Suddenly, she begins to wiggle as something bubbles up inside her. The sound of the letter W erupts from her mouth. She experiments with different ways to use this newfound sound.

She goes back to the cauldron to find the letter B. She repeats the process of examining this letter and then eating it. The sound of the letter B erupts from her mouth and she plays with this newfound power.

She is fascinated by this power and sticks her entire head into the cauldron to eat whatever letters she can find. The letters and their sounds explode out of the scientist. She experiments with combining the letters to make new sounds. The letters begin to animate and come alive on the screen as she makes their noise. She attempts to jar these noises to no avail. Letters are flying around the laboratory when one accidentally breaks a light and the lab goes dark. While the scientist is trying to get some lights back on, the letters begin to tickle her.

She becomes overwhelmed by her attempt to catch the letters when she hears a small tapping noise. The letter F is trapped in a jar. She picks up the jar, releasing the butterfly-like letter which lands on her hand. All the letters begin to greet her. She plays games with the letters including hide-and-go-seek.

Letters begin raining down. At first, the scientist splashes in the letter filled puddles. Then the “water” begins to rise and she must swim to the top. She pulls the plug and the letters wash away until she is left with the last letter, a U. She decides to plant the letter like a seed. She waits until more letters begin to grow into strings of letters making words that aren’t quite words. The tree of letters and words begins to blow in the wind. The scientist takes a big breath and blows the letter leaves from the tree so they can make their way out into the world. She is enchanted.

She grabs her microphone and plays a call and response with the audience using the letter sounds they discovered. She reaches into the cauldron and discovers something new: a number! She runs offstage while eating the new discovery.